Patents Assigned to RESONANCE MEDICAL, LLC
  • Patent number: 10300269
    Abstract: A system for neuromodulation device coding for stimulation of a patient includes a neural code library comprising digital representations of neural responses of neural units of at least one normal functioning animal, each digital representation corresponding to one of digital representations of stimulus; a sensory device configured to detect a sensory signal; an analyzer configured to identify one of the digital representations of stimulus in the neural code library in response to receipt of the sensory signal; a processing device configured, for each identified sensory signal, to retrieve the digital representations of neural responses of neural units corresponding to the identified sensory signal from the neural code library, and select one or more neural units of a patient to be stimulated by a neuromodulation device associated with the patient; and a transmitting device configured to stimulate the selected one or more neural units of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, RESONANCE MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Claus-Peter Richter, Chris Heddon, Petrina LaFaire, Brian Dougherty
  • Patent number: 10080894
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include systems and methods for neuromodulation device coding with a neural code library. The method includes identifying a pattern of a sensory signal, retrieving one or more digital representations of a neural response corresponding to the identified pattern from a neural code library, where the neural code library comprises a plurality of digital representations of neural responses of neural units corresponding to each pattern, selecting one or more neural units of a patient to be stimulated by a neuromodulation device associated with the patient based on the retrieved one or more digital representations of a neural response pattern, and stimulating the selected neural units of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, RESONANCE MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Claus-Peter Richter, Chris Heddon, Petrina LaFaire, Brian Dougherty
  • Patent number: 9717901
    Abstract: A cochlear implant includes electrodes and a processor for generating frequency-modulated electrical pulse trains in one or more of the electrodes responsive to dividing data representing audio spanning frequency-bands into bins associated with each frequency-band, each bin representing an energy level of the data within the frequency-band within a time-period; associating each frequency-band with a phase probability that starts at an initial phase probability value (PPV), resets to a minimum PPV after generating a pulse, and increases from the minimum PPV to a maximum PPV over a time-period; for each bin, assigning a power probability as a normalized intensity being a number between a minimum power probability and a maximum power probability representing the energy level of the bin, and generating a pulse in an electrode associated with the frequency-band associated with the bin when a random number generated is less than the power probability divided by the phase probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, RESONANCE MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Claus-Peter Richter, Reagan Roberts
  • Patent number: 9623242
    Abstract: A method of generating frequency-modulated pulse trains in a CI includes dividing data representing audio spanning frequency bands into a plurality of bins associated with each frequency band, each bin representing an energy level of the data within the frequency band within a period of time; associating each frequency band with a phase probability that starts at an initial phase probability value (PPV), resets to a minimum PPV after generating a pulse, and increases from the minimum PPV to a maximum PPV over a period of time; for each bin, assigning a power probability as a normalized intensity being a number between a minimum power probability and a maximum power probability representing the energy level of the bin, and generating a pulse in an electrode associated with the frequency band associated with the bin when a random number generated is less than the power probability divided by the phase probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, RESONANCE MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Claus-Peter Richter, Reagan Roberts